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From: corwithani
Date: Wed May 10 13:11:23 MST 2006
Subject: uh oh, this could get rather addicting

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corwithani: oops (5/10/06)

NewRyan: big pictures (5/11/06)

Boojeee: resizing (5/11/06)

russ: webslave at work (5/11/06)

Suki: ... (5/11/06)

MaryKay: still messed up (5/11/06)

Krysti: me too! (5/13/06)

russ: Well, sort of... (5/16/06)

Karen: Speaking for myself (5/16/06)

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Karen: Speaking for myself (5/16/06)
russ: Well, sort of... (5/16/06)
Krysti: me too! (5/13/06)
MaryKay: still messed up (5/11/06)
russ: webslave at work (5/11/06)
Suki: ... (5/11/06)
Boojeee: resizing (5/11/06)
NewRyan: big pictures (5/11/06)
corwithani: oops (5/10/06)

why hello friends! this is Cori here. so, I'm not gonna lie, for awhile now I've been on this website, reading people's blogs, looking at some sweet pictures, reading Joel's bio and laughing... but have not yet committed to really being a part. so here I am!! it's finals week, I have two to go, and another paper, and what have I decided to do?!? POST A BLOG of course!!! :-)

so... this blog is pretty much just to announce my presence and say "hello" - summer is near!! also I thought it'd be fun to post some pictures of going gliding a few days ago. have any of you ever done it? it was actually quite intense, especially when you're up there and the guy counts down from three for you to release the glider from the actual airplane...

I literally almost had to use this barf bag a few times. (you can't see it, but the instructions were in Chinese... can you say "sketch"?) it was quite hot out there (and up there), and my good friend Jeff who was in control of the whole thing was quite the jokester. it was very fun though. I'd totally go again. very beautiful overlooking the wonderful town of Marana.
anywho... I guess that is enough for now. I will now resort back to my former way of life: cramming for my sign language final that is in t-minus 2 hours. have a fantabulous day -- and PS today is Layne's 20th birthday so call/email her if you haven't already!! :)

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From: corwithani
Date: Wed May 10 13:15:00 MST 2006
Subject: oops

woah nelly........ those pictures are huge.
hahahahaha.
my bad. :)

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From: NewRyan
Date: Wed May 10 17:32:03 MST 2006
Subject: big pictures

we've all done the big picture thing on our first blog. (at least I did) It's kinda like the bloggers initiation. You can resize the pictures pretty easily using a variety of methods of which I'm sure someone would be happy to show you.

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From: Boojeee
Date: Wed May 10 20:43:04 MST 2006
Subject: resizing

Open your pic in an editing program. [i think even paint will work] Change the image size to 3 inches by whatever that turns out to be and save the image as a different name so you don't lose the resolution in your huge photo file.

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From: russ
Date: Thu May 11 10:12:44 MST 2006
Subject: webslave at work

Thanks, Julie for the info. You seem to be the resident tech support :)
I edited your blog, Cori, to force the pictures down to a more readable size...but they are still large internally, so they will still take a while for people w/ slow Internet connections to download them. Whatever.

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From: Suki
Date: Wed May 10 22:56:13 MST 2006
Subject: ...

and... welcome!!

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From: MaryKay
Date: Thu May 11 11:09:28 MST 2006
Subject: still messed up

Whatever you did Russ really messed up the blog on my laptop. The one picture is cut off and Cori has disappeared and once again the pictures are covering some of the text. Is this something I can change?

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From: Krysti
Date: Sat May 13 16:20:04 MST 2006
Subject: me too!

Yup, Russ, sorry but I have the same problem as Mary Kay, again. Is there any way for us to fix this kind of thing on our own or will we be forever asking someone else to work on it?

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From: russ
Date: Tue May 16 11:03:40 MST 2006
Subject: Well, sort of...

If you want to look at the details of her blog (anybody can click on the "Edit this blog" link, though only Cori can actually check in changes), you'll see that I added a couple of "width" and "height" specifications on the images, to force them to display down at a reasonable size (even though they are still very large internally). Cori could delete those...but then the pictures would be huge again.
In a case like this, the best thing is to change the size of the pictures on your home computer, then Edit the blog, uploading the new versions. Then make sure to remove the HTML code that displays the old, large pictures.
As far as pictures overlaying your text, I don't know what is happening...it doesn't happen on the web browsers I use :( Which browser are you guys running?

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From: Karen
Date: Tue May 16 12:09:46 MST 2006
Subject: Speaking for myself

MS Explorer. What, Bill Gates doesn't own the entire world yet?? (maniacal laughter ensues) I have to use whatever Amphitheater USD provides.

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